Time-Warps, Planets & Creationism
Creationists, using priest-written texts of “revealed” knowledge, choose to think that creation began only a few thousand years ago. However, under that format they are hard-pressed to explain how so many remarkable advancements of man could have been crammed into such a meager time slot. In the Mesopotamian region in the time frame of the Creationists’ “beginning,” for example, the human species was startlingly advanced. Somehow in in this period of time the newly created humans were already building cities with multistoried buildings, complex street systems, market places, schools, banking systems, and a sophisticated judicial system! They were also making use of weights and measures, dabbled in international commerce, made use of ships that sailed to and from wharves in well-tended harbors, and who used wheeled chariots as a common means of transport. This is the land mentioned as the “land of Shin’ar” in biblical stories. Of course a concept of evolution is out of the question for them: God would neither want nor need to labor over refining any basic idea of something. Instead, everything is believed to have been installed as perfect from the start. That way he would never again have to be bothered with it all. On the other hand, if change seemed desirable to him, he could always clean it up using a flash flood technique.
By Creationist’s calculation the creation of the universe and its supposed central focus, Earth, is vaguely placed as somewhere around 4500 BCE at most. The funny thing is that their calculation could have a modicum of merit. Their calculations are based on the Hebrew version of creation drawn from other cultures’ myths, and that version became the condensed and simplified account that opens the book of Genesis in the Pentateuch. Events on Earth were chaotic back in that general period of mythmaking, with many great cities and civilizations rising and falling as the nomadic Hebrew tribes sought a land of refuge. Even the heavens seemed to be in turmoil. This may account why the first year of the Jewish calendar is placed in the year 3760 BCE—around the late Neolithic period in the Canaan region (4500 BCE)—when some measure of stability was taken up by the Hebrews in some methodical manner. By this period farming collectives were being established across the Middle and Near East, with an intermingling of “racial” types becoming acceptable. Nomadic herders who followed their livestock found that cultivating crops allowed them to settle in one region.
For a little over two thousand years between c. 3600 to c. 1500 BCE there was a puzzling flurry of megalithbuilding that extended in a wide arc around the coasts of Europe. If creation occurred only a couple thousand years before that, this is amazing creative ability for the creature man. It is estimated that over 50,000 such megaliths were built, the most famous among them is known to us as Stonehenge (then in its first stage). Only something urgent would have inspired such wide-scale constructions that ranged from Malta, Spain and Portugal to Sweden and the Shetland Islands, etc. And that urgency had to do with a frightening disorder in the observable heavens. From Egypt to the Indus Valley, from China to South and Central America, detailed layouts and monumental labor went into the careful construction of structures dedicated to the study of the heaven’s movements. Placid skies do not motivate such commitment.
Then, generations later, c. 3114 BCE, the Mayans tell of the beginning of a new cycle of time which is precisely dated as having begun in a long darkness that occurred on 4 Ahau 8 Cumku, which corresponds to the 13th of August 3114 BCE. And on the opposite side of the planet the earliest so-called “omen tablets” written on Sumerian/Babylonian tablets also date from this eventful date.
For some reason the celestial body we know as the planet Venus gained a major holy role throughout many widely distant cultures in this time. Oddly, today’s religions, sciences and even historians avoid investigation of how our disturbed planetary neighbors may have contributed to mankind’s place in the scheme of things.
See related posting, 2012 Doomsday, March 13, 2009.
Time Frames and Taboo Data Blog 
Leave a Reply